Thurmond’s dead

Thurmond's dead are the near-empty town's collective presence — the lore attached to a railroad boomtown where a hundred trains a day once stopped, now preserved and silent on the New River. The 'haunting' is the town itself: the depot, the bank, the houses where everyone used to be. The presences go by thurmond’s dead in the file. In a place where the population already left once, the remaining reports at Thurmond feel almost inevitable. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Thurmond’s dead.